St. Joseph

p.23 Saint Joseph’s life was a preparation for his vocation as Husband of Mary and Father of Jesus

p.92 Sayings of Saints about St. Joseph

p.98 Sayings of Holy Men about St. Joseph

p.107 Devotion to Joseph will make us even more like Jesus

p.143 The hiddenness of St. Joseph

p.146 Finding the boy Jesus in the temple

p.150 When St. Joseph most probably died

p.150 Contemplating the Holy Family’s hidden life

p.155 St. Joseph likely raised body and soul

p.155 St. Joseph’s holy and blessed death

p.167 Prayers and Resolutions to St. Joseph

p.173 The exalted dignity of St. Joseph

p.187 God entrusted the Blessed Virgin to one man

p.189 God entrusted His own Divine Son to one man

p.198 St. Joseph was Confirmed in Grace

p.203 The Purity of St. Joseph

p.211 The Perpetual Virginity of St. Joseph

p.214 Faith is necessary for salvation and gives glory to God

p.240 An Act of Consecration to St. Joseph

p.250 St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church

p.253 St. Joseph, a Saint for our age

p.257 St. Joseph, Patron of a Happy Death

p.286 St. Joseph, Protector of Christ

p.299 The Holy Family at Nazareth are a Paradise on Earth

p.310 The Most Chaste Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary

p.312 Resolutions and Prayers to St. Joseph through his espousal to the Blessed Virgin Mary

p.315 St. Joseph, the Guardian and Protector of the Blessed Virgin

p.319 St. Joseph, a Just man

p.323 St. Joseph the Chaste

p.326 Prayers and Resolutions for Purity and Chastity

p.328 Prayer is necessary for our salvation

p.331 Resolutions and Prayers for Prayer

p.333 The Power and Promises of Prayer

p.336 Prayers and resolutions to obtain the grace of Prayer

p.338 How to be heard in our prayers

p.341 Prayers and Resolutions to obtain Confident Prayers

p.344 St. Joseph ardently desires our Salvation

p.346 Prayers for St. Joseph’s patronage

p.349 St. Joseph is given to us as a new Joseph over all God’s house

p.352 Prayers and Resolutions to “Go to Joseph”

p.354 St. Joseph Sought and Did Only the Will of God

p.357 Resolutions and Prayers of Conformity to the Will of God

p.364 God is everywhere and sees everything, being the comfort of the just, and terror of the wicked

p.116 God gave Mary the pure virgin Joseph to hide and protect His Sacred Mysteries

p.117 Mary and Joseph were probably betrothed by the highest Jewish authorities themselves

p.117 The marriage of Mary and Joseph was to be perfect in order to restore the honor due to marriage forfeited by Adam and Eve

p.118 The Jewish authorities probably espoused Mary to Joseph as worthy and comparable of her most excellent virtues as a child

p.119 Discussion on the Blessed Virgin’s Vow of Virginity in relation to her Espousal to St. Joseph

p.121 Joseph’s rare virtues and holiness probably led the authorities to betroth him to Mary

p.123 An ancient legend of St. Joseph being chosen by God for the Blessed Virgin Mary’s spouse by a miracle like that of Aaron’s rod that budded

p.123 Two Doctors of the Church on the Espousal of St. Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary

p.125 Strong reasons why Aaron’s rod that budded was a miracle reproduced for God choosing St. Joseph as the Blessed Virgin’s Most Chaste Spouse

p.126 The Blessed Virgin willfully and deliberately consented to marriage with Joseph

p.126 Mary and Joseph probably knew about each other’s vow of virginity before being espoused

p.127 Mary chose Joseph as her spouse freely and deliberately

p.128 Mary’s consent to marry Joseph was the highest honor he could receive

p.129 Mary gave her heart only to God and Joseph

p.130 Mary and Joseph had but one heart and one spirit

p.131 Conclusion of the chapter on the Blessed Virgin’s betrothal to St. Joseph

p.132 Reasons St. Joseph was probably a young man when he married the Blessed Virgin Mary

p.134 The hidden facts of Mary’s and Joseph’s lives must have been the most fitting and perfect of all possibilities

p.135 St. Joseph is merely portrayed as an old man in Christian Art to represent his virtues and analogy of God the Father

p.136 St. Joseph’s early artistic depiction and very young do not prove that he was very young

p.138 St. Joseph was probably the most comely and well-disposed of the sons of men

p.142 Reasonable, historical, and Biblical guesses as to the details of the marriage ceremony of St. Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary

p.144 An answer to a question of why Joseph and Mary would renew their vows of virginity on their marriage night

p.144 St. Francis de Sales declaring that St. Joseph was perpetually a virgin as well

p.145 How Joseph and Mary were true spouses despite being also perpetual virgins

p.147 Reasons the marriage of Joseph and Mary wasn’t invalid despite their vows of virginity

p.148 More reasons it was fitting that Mary and Joseph should be both married and virgins

p.149 The marriage of Joseph and Mary was intended to hide their virginity until the appointed time

p.150 Mary was given as wife not to the man with most worldly advantages, but to the holiest man alive

p.152 Theories about when Joseph and Mary left Jerusalem after their marriage

p.153 How Joseph and Mary both also practiced the Evangelical Counsels of Poverty and Obedience

p.155 A brief description of the Holy House in Nazareth

p.156 The hidden life of Joseph and Mary

p.158 How Joseph and Mary honored, served and loved one another as the holiest and most devout spouses

p.159 St. Leonard of Port Maurice on the dignity of St. Joseph as the Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary

p.160 The unfathomable spiritual riches St. Joseph much have received as the privileged husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God

p.161 The many blessings and consequences of Joseph being the most blessed spouse of Mary

p.164 God rewarded the purity, humility, and virginity of Joseph and Mary by letting them become the parents of the Messiah

p.165 Joseph and Mary were truly married before the Annunciation

p.166 All God’s angels descended from Heaven to witness the Annunciation, Fiat, and Incarnation at midnight on March 25th

p.168 On the Archangel Gabriel entering Mary’s room to greet her

p.170 Mary is full of grace and blessed among all women

p.171 Mary by faith remained a Virgin yet became Mother of God

p.173 The world is saved by Mary’s fiat

p.176 Meditations on the hearts of Mary and Joseph right after the Annunciation and Incarnation

p.178 Reasons why Mary did not tell Joseph about the Incarnation

p.356 The authority of St. Joseph

p.357 St. Joseph, the God of God

p.358 The dignity of St. Joseph

p.359 St. Joseph, sharer of the Father’s Authority

p.362 The School of the Holy Family

p.367 Joseph’s Interior Life of Prayer and Contemplation

p.372 Joseph’s Interior Life of Prayer and Contemplation (part 2)

p.377 Joseph’s Singular Faith

p.381 Joseph’s Supernatural Wisdom

p.384 St. Joseph’s love of silence and silence of love

p.384 The Divine Resemblance between Jesus and Joseph

p.386 The divine communion of Joseph and the Infant Jesus

p.387 St. Joseph was a far more perfect father to Jesus than natural fathers are

p.421 Mary wanted Joseph resurrected with her

p.422 The Glory of St. Joseph’s Resurrected Body

p.426 God gave Joseph to us as well as Mary